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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable snowman"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable snow monster"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable snowperson"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominably"
}
],
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"1": "nb",
"2": "abominabel",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: abominabel",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: abominabel"
}
],
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "abhomynable"
},
"expansion": "Middle English abhomynable",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "abominable"
},
"expansion": "Old French abominable",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "abōminābilis",
"4": "",
"5": "deserving abhorrence"
},
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"name": "der"
},
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"1": "la",
"2": "abōminor",
"3": "",
"4": "abhor, deprecate as an ill omen"
},
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},
{
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"2": "ab",
"3": "",
"4": "from, away from"
},
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"name": "m"
},
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"2": "ōminor",
"3": "",
"4": "forebode, predict, presage"
},
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"name": "m"
},
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"2": "ōmen",
"3": "",
"4": "sign, token, omen"
},
"expansion": "ōmen (“sign, token, omen”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ab-"
},
"expansion": "Latin ab-",
"name": "m+"
},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "homo"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "abhominable"
},
"expansion": "abhominable",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "abhominal"
},
"expansion": "abhominal",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English abhomynable, from Old French abominable, from Late Latin abōminābilis (“deserving abhorrence”), from abōminor (“abhor, deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ōminor (“forebode, predict, presage”), from ōmen (“sign, token, omen”). Formerly erroneously folk-etymologized as deriving from Latin ab- + homo and therefore spelled abhominable, abhominal; see those entries for more.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more abominable",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most abominable",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "abominable (comparative more abominable, superlative most abominable)",
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}
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"pos": "adj",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominate"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abomination"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable man"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable woman"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable crime"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable act"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable deed"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable sin"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable vice"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable character"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable place"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable mystery"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable treatment"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable church"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable bride"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "abominable snowman"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
"text": "The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1861, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 61”, in Offences against the Person Act 1861, page 833",
"text": "Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable."
],
"id": "en-abominable-en-adj-q907AtZW",
"links": [
[
"abhorrence",
"abhorrence"
],
[
"odious",
"odious"
],
[
"utmost",
"utmost"
],
[
"hateful",
"hateful"
],
[
"detestable",
"detestable"
],
[
"loathsome",
"loathsome"
],
[
"execrable",
"execrable"
],
[
"The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles",
"w:Shorter Oxford English Dictionary"
],
[
"Oxford University Press",
"w:Oxford University Press"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baḡīḍ",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَغِيض"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "weḥeš",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "وحش"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otvratitelen",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "отвратителен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "protiven",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "противен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nenavisten",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "ненавистен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "omrazen",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "омразен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominable"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "ohavný"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "odporný"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "hnusný"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "strašný"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominabel"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "afstotelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "verschrikkelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "afschuwelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "verfoeilijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abomena"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominable"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominable"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominábel"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "verabscheuungswürdig"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "verhasst"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abscheulich"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "andasēts",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍃𐌴𐍄𐍃"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "bdeluktós",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "βδελυκτός"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "bdelurós",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "βδελυρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "נתעב"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "utálatos"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "undorító"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "gyűlöletes"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominabile"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "gráiniúil"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominabile"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "detestabile"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "efferato"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "odioso"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abōminābilis"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abōminandus"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "āversābilis"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ódvraten",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "о́двратен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ómrazen",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "о́мразен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "gnásen",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "гна́сен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nenávisten",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "нена́вистен"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominabel"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "avskyelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "fryktelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "fæl"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "ohydny"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "odrażający"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "plugawy"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "niegodziwy"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominável"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "execrável"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominabil"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "detestabil"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "отврати́тельный"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "omerzítelʹnyj",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "омерзи́тельный"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protívnyj",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "проти́вный"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gnúsnyj",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "гну́сный"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gádkij",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "га́дкий"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otvrátnyj",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "отвра́тный"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nenavístnyj",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "ненави́стный"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "gnusan"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "abominable"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "aborrecible"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "avskyvärd"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "kaani-ani"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "kamuhi-muhi"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "iğrenç"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "berbat"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 5 3 17",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "hateful; detestable; loathsome",
"word": "menfur"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "23 43 4 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excessive, large (used as an intensifier)."
],
"id": "en-abominable-en-adj-oh57vOMC",
"links": [
[
"intensifier",
"intensifier"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Excessive, large (used as an intensifier)."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 91 1 5",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "(obsolete) excessive; large",
"word": "strašný"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 91 1 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(obsolete) excessive; large",
"word": "riesig"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 91 1 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(obsolete) excessive; large",
"word": "monströs"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 91 1 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(obsolete) excessive; large",
"word": "enorme"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Very bad or inferior."
],
"id": "en-abominable-en-adj-dj6~eEhD",
"links": [
[
"bad",
"bad"
],
[
"inferior",
"inferior"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "13 0 86 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "onaangenaam"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 0 86 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "walgelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 0 86 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "förtelmes"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 0 86 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ódvraten",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "о́двратен"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 0 86 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "abominável"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 0 86 1",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(obsolete) excessive; large",
"word": "enorme"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "onaangenaam"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "walgelijk"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "förtelmes"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ódvraten",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "о́двратен"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "abominável"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "terrível"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "péssimo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
"sense": "very bad or inferior",
"word": "отврати́тельный"
}
],
"word": "abominable"
}
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